1988. 5000 Iraqi civilians killed by chemical warfare.
1987. 50,000-100,000 civilian Kurds were killed. Genocide.
1990. Kuwait, >1000 nationals killed during the beginning of the invasion.
1991. 30,000-60,000 civilians killed for suspected revolt.
Since 1980. >10,000 political opponents in Iraq.
Average = 136,000 + or - 40,000 civilians killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime over the course of 20 years.
US War in Iraq has killed 38,000-42,000 civilians in 5 years. So far the US hasn’t killed as many cilivilians as Saddam Hussein but how many more years will this war continue?
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Of course this doesn't take into account the number of civilian deaths in Afganistan.
This was only an account of Iraqi civilian deaths due to Saddam Hussein and the US. I did not take into account the number of deaths due to the invasion of Kuwait or the Iran-Iraq war. The nationals that I listed from Kuwait were in Iraq or were Iraqi nationals in Kuwait as I gather. If I were to do an anaylsis of that I would have to include the numbers of deaths from the US throughout Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Central and South America, etc. Those numbers, both US and Iraqi, would be staggering to see and very difficult to determine.
And you are right the war started in 2003 so the war has really only been going on for three years. I was thinking of the invasion of Afganistan also but that shouldn't count for this post. Of course Bush claimed "Mission Accomplished" that same year (2003) but the war rages on.
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